This is an analysis of the poem Pains Of Sleep, The that begins with:

Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
It hath not been my use to pray... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcXXXXdd efeaggghhiihhejejkkXaaafkkeeeejcjcjjaaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 01101101 01011101 11001101 11010101 01011111 010101010 11011110 100101000 011011110 11111110 101111001 01011101 11011101 01010100 11000101 01111101 01010101 10010001 11111101 100101000 11011101 010010101 11110101 010101001 11110101 10011011 11011111 10110110 11110111 11110101 1100111001 11110101 10110101 10110101 10010100 01111111 110100101 1000100111 11111001 11011101 11000101 11001101 01010101 11100001 001000101 01001101 01111111 11011101 1100100111 000100111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, or, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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